On an autumn day on a lush green prairie, more than a dozen pregnant mares are waiting to be bled for the last time this year.. At farms like this one, several litres of blood are collected from each horse in order to extract the PMSG hormone (Pregnant mare serum gonadotropin), also known as eCG, produced naturally by pregnant mares.
Winemaking was a profession most South African parents could never have envisioned for their children. . South Africa was still under the racially segregated apartheid regime when Stevens made her first attempt to study winemaking in 1991.
Deplorable living conditions, gloomy prospects at school and at work: the situation of Roma communities in Europe has not improved despite EU objectives to facilitate their integration, a report by the bloc's rights agency said on Tuesday.. Across Europe, Roma continue to "face shocking levels of deprivation, marginalisation and discrimination," said Michael O'Flaherty, director of the Vienna-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).
In her rapid rise through Italian politics, Giorgia Meloni has repeatedly shattered the glass ceiling and has now become the first woman premier in the still staunchly patriarchal country.. "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian," Meloni said at a 2019 rally.
Wearing a rainbow T-shirt and earrings, Ona Ruda struts confidently through the Arena Fonte Nova football stadium, home to his beloved Bahia team and one of Brazil's LGBT fan bases.. However, the fact that they can go to the stadium waving rainbow flags and wearing rainbow T-shirts, is no small matter.
Parents often worry about the harmful impacts of video games on their children, from mental health and social problems to missing out on exercise. . After using statistical methods to control for variables that could skew results, such as parental income, IQ, and mental health symptoms, the team found the video gamers performed consistently better on both tasks.
After nearly a century of geopolitical tension over access to oil, experts worry that the global transition to clean energy is creating new dependencies on the critical minerals needed for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries.. - Cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium are critical to making electric vehicle batteries.
Uganda has reported 14 confirmed cases of Ebola in the greater Kampala region, the country's health minister said Monday, but sought to assure anxious residents that the situation in the capital was under control.. But Aceng told AFP Monday: "The situation in Kampala is still under control and (there is) no need to restrict people's movements."
American students saw big declines in their reading and mathematics scores after years of disrupted learning due to the pandemic, with national test results described as "appalling and unacceptable" by the education secretary.. The pandemic also worsened learning outcomes in other ways, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which organizes the tests.
Bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crop species that provide 90 percent of food worldwide.. "Getting inferior food ... should affect wintering.
